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No, I'm not new to Gentoo, I've just been switching back and forth for a |
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while, although I always appreciate some verbose instructions. Now X and |
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gnome have begun working, I'm just dealing with some other problems. |
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-Peter |
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On 5/13/07, Isidore Ducasse <ducasse.isidore@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I assume you're quite new to gentoo, so I'll be as verbose as I can. Ask |
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> for more if you need some. |
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> I have always experienced troubles with X at startup on fresh installs, |
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> whatever distro I use (mainly Debian and Gentoo, and a bit of NetBSD). And |
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> if gdm is running at boot, there's no access to the whole boot log on tty1. |
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> I know it lies somewhere, but I don't want it printed on screen just for |
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> fun. |
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> For these reasons, I never use gdm by default. To fix your problem, I |
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> would disable it the following way: |
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> - boot with a livecd of any kind. |
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> - mount your gentoo root and chroot into it. |
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> - "source /etc/profile && env-update" |
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> - "rc-update del xdm default" |
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> - reboot your system. |
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> Once you've rebooted, you can try to launch an x session customizing |
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> ~/.xinitrc and using "startx" . If that doesn't work you probably have a |
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> misconfigured /etc/X11/xorg.conf . You could generate a sample one with |
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> "X -configure" . The web page http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg is worth a |
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> glance in this neverending quest. |
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> When it does work you can issue a "/etc/init.d/xdm start" . |
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